If Japan had won at Midway - Could there have been a Jutland redux?

In Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, the author states "He briefly contemplated merging TF 1, TF8 and Kaskakia at point strike 1100 miles north of Oahu but regained his senses. "King would only commit the old battleships to action without proper air support. [mistake?] Nimitz cut short Pye's cruise and told him to take TF-1 to San Pedro." This was after initially failing to find evidence of a Japanese incursion in the Aleutians and before being aware that the Japanese were planning to attack Midway.


I also found this wonderful website listing where task forces were at any one time. http://pacific.valka.cz/forces/tf1.htm
 
How much fuel or gas did the Japanese have? Long way home. If the USA had lost ALL their carriers perhaps the best the Japanese could hope for was to capture Midway? No Hawaiian follow up? The Japanese Midway plan came about AFTER Dolittles B25 Japan raid? The pin prick through the heart?

Perhaps the Japanese would have continued South to get the oil, then continued into the Indian ocean in force? Burma then India? Even North Australia? Imagine Japanese heavy cruisers going through the Red Sea and through the canal into the Med? The USN would have to wait for the new construction.
 
How much fuel or gas did the Japanese have? Long way home. If the USA had lost ALL their carriers perhaps the best the Japanese could hope for was to capture Midway? No Hawaiian follow up? The Japanese Midway plan came about AFTER Dolittles B25 Japan raid? The pin prick through the heart?

Perhaps the Japanese would have continued South to get the oil, then continued into the Indian ocean in force? Burma then India? Even North Australia? Imagine Japanese heavy cruisers going through the Red Sea and through the canal into the Med? The USN would have to wait for the new construction.

None of that is happening the shipping doesn't exist to supply or sustain any of that
 
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